In Search of Our Mother's Garden

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.

First sentence: There is a letter Vincent Van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard that is very meaningful to me.

Year

1984

Language

English

Publisher

Harvest Books

Editions

7

Pages

420

ISBN

9780156445443

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